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To enable me to provide the most accurate information, I need to ask you a couple of questions. Please tell me:1. In what manner is the person making poor life choices? Can you give me an example please2. Is the person abusing drugs or alcohol?3. Has the person sought medical treatment?4. Does the person have a diagnosed illness?5. Has the person threatened harm to himself or others?6. What other information do you think would be helpful for me to know?

I was just wanting to know if someone is delinquent on their taxes if someone could say that they are incompentent and cant run their life? What steps would they have to go thru to prove incompentency? Like would they have to prove it court?

In Oklahoma an adult aged 18 or older is presumed competent. The issue of competency only arises if there is some evidence of impairment. Only a court can determine that a person is not competent.

In order to be determined incompetent, a court must rule that an individual's actions fail a legal test of "minimal cognitive capacity". The failure to pay taxes in a timely manner alone would not be sufficient. Bad financial judgment alone is not proof of incompetency

It depends upon the circumstances surrounding the incompetency. In the most extreme situation, where a person is believed to be in imminent danger – a threat to himself or others – the police can take the person into custody pending court review within 72 hours.

However that is not the situation you have described.

In a situation where the person is alleged to be financially incompetent, one would need to file a petition with the court for guardianship of the persons property. Medical testimony would be required from at least 2 physicians and the court would hear additional evidence from interested parties/witnesses.

So basically what you are saying said person would have to either be mentally not sound and doing crazy things or physically impaired and not able to do for one self? As long as said person can maintain their life in a normal fashion it is almost impossible to be prooven incompentent correct? Thats way the I'm taking our conversation anyway.

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